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Guardian Newspapers Ltd, today announced the appointment of Simon Waldman, Head of Guardian Unlimited, and Derek Gannon, Head of IT, to the Guardian Newspapers Ltd (GNL) Board. Their titles change to Director of Digital Publishing and IT Director respectively and Waldman and Gannon will join the eleven strong GNL Executive Board with immediate effect. Carolyn… Continue reading Board Appointments At Guardian Newspapers Ltd

When United Business Media last week announced an 11.4% rise in headline profit during 2000, the company reporting was almost completely unrecognisable, even in name, from this time last year. United has chosen its way forward and begun the new millennium making certain it is on track. The new century began with plans for a… Continue reading Insight Focus: United Business Media

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has released details of complaints about television advertising it dealt with for January 2001. Food and drink advertising seemed to cause the largest amount of controversy during the month, with an advert for Van der Bergh Foods’ Chicken Tonight Stir-In Paste prompting complaints from 16 sources, all with close links… Continue reading Why The ITC Wasn’t Having Chicken Tonight

German public service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have acquired the rights to show the 2002 and 2006 World Cup competitions after reaching an agreement with Kirch, owner of the European-wide rights to the tournaments. The news follows Kirch’s previous refusal to guarantee the rights to the 2006 competition in a potential DM225 million sale of… Continue reading German Public Service Broadcasters Acquire World Cup Rights

Newsline will provide coverage of the key developments in this afternoon’s Budget as it is delivered by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Newsline‘s Budget page will be set to automatically refresh every few seconds ensuring a full, rolling coverage throughout the Chancellor’s speech which is expected to begin around 3:30pm.

Speaking at the FT New Media & Broadcasting conference yesterday, Granada chief executive Steve Morrison confirmed reports that he is in talks with potential European partners that could help his company gain a foothold on the continent. Granada already has production businesses in Australia and China and hopes to build similar divisions across Europe.

The New York Times warned investors Monday that its first-quarter earnings would fall below expectations as advertising revenue growth falls in the current economic climate although the company still expects to meet its target of 10% to 15% growth in full-year earnings per share, mainly due to tighter controls on costs and added revenues from… Continue reading New York Times Warns Of Ad Revenue Slowdown

New Research from Jupiter reveleals that most companies are slow to move their buying processes onto the Internet many are hesitating to do so at all. Jupiter studied ‘eprocurement’ and found that many procurement managers “see so little advantage in moving online” that they will do less than 20% of their business buying online until… Continue reading eProcurement Slow To Take Off

European broadcaster RTL Group and its French rival Canal Plus are understood to be planning an alliance that would see the two groups sharing European sports broadcasting rights. According to a report on the Media Guardian website this morning, the companies are discussing merging their broadcasting rights and marketing units in a venture that would… Continue reading RTL And Canal Plus Thought To Be In Sports Rights Discussions

SMG has this morning announced yet another stake increase in Scottish Radio Holdings, taking its stake up to 27.7%. SMG has acquired a further 2.8% in SRH for £14.6 million, in two separate purchases: 644,000 shares yesterday and 275,000 this morning. All the shares were priced at 1,587½p each, its closing price yesterday. SMG has… Continue reading SMG Builds Scottish Radio Stake To 27.7%